MH-275 Melting Season - Harmoni-Pet DeluxeHarmoni-Pet Deluxe is the debut release from Texas-based Melting Season, a musical enterprise that can only be described as a one-man-band with the qualifier that the man has twelve arms. With piles of instruments, field recordings, dollar-store props and vocal wizardry, Bruce Blay, the man behind the music, has created an album that evokes Animal Collective, Bibio and making out with your imaginary friend. Adopting a self-described "anything-goes" mentality, choosing spontaneity over recommended guidelines, the album was recorded in pseudo-solitary at home during a time when he was particularly far away from his usual musical playmates. The sounds of ukulele, drums, autoharp, kalimba, bells and a menagerie of others ebb, flow, clap and stomp, heralding the coming of a genre all its own. Part psych-folk, part woodsy-self-revelation and part aural design, Harmoni-Pet Deluxe was written as inspired by camping adventures, beach parties, and climbing trees... and it most certainly sounds like it.

The album draws from the same sonic influences as Animal Collective and Bibio – a deadly combo if you ask me. - Deftune / An American quilt of introspect bedroom Gedaddel, nurtured by too much shrooms and whale chants - Lowdown

An American quilt of introspect bedroom Gedaddel, nurtured by too much shrooms and whale chants. Favorite songs for mad scientists, laughing alone on forgotten islands with miniature atomic bombs, banjos, and various percussion tools. Or early Bibio-slightly in limbo, yet 12-headed, but with one mind; or even better; the audio equivalent to a Funkadelic live show after 20 years of collecting colorful things and jokes to add to the costume, without ever taking a single one away. Let's melt together - Lowdown